Edward Everett Horton
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television, and voice work for animated cartoons. Horton began his stage career in 1906, singing and dancing and playing small parts in vaudeville and in Broadway productions. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began acting in Hollywood films. His first starring role was in the comedy Too Much Business (1922), but he portrayed the lead role of an idealistic young classical composer in the drama Beggar on Horseback (1925). In the late 1920s, he starred in two-reel silent comedies for Educational Pictures, and made the transition to talking pictures with Educational in 1929. As a stage-trained performer, he found more film work easily, and appeared in some of Warner Bros.' early talkies, including The Terror (1928) and Sonny Boy (1929). Horton initially used his given name, Edward Horton, professionally. His father persuaded him to adopt his full name professionally, reasoning that other actors might be named Edward Horton, but only one named Edward Everett Horton. Horton soon cultivated his own special variation of the time-honored double take (an actor's reaction to something, followed by a delayed, more extreme reaction). In Horton's version, he would smile ingratiatingly and nod in agreement with what just happened; then, when realization set in, his facial features collapsed entirely into a sober, troubled mask. Horton starred in many comedy features in the 1930s, usually playing a mousy fellow who put up with domestic or professional problems to a certain point, and then finally asserted himself for a happy ending. He is best known, however, for his work as a character actor in supporting roles. These include The Front Page (1931), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Alice in Wonderland (1933), The Gay Divorcee (1934, the first of several Astaire/Rogers films in which Horton appeared), Top Hat (1935), Danger - Love at Work (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), Holiday (1938), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Pocketful of Miracles (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), and Sex and the Single Girl (1964). His last role was in the comedy film Cold Turkey (1971), in which his character communicated only through facial expressions.
Known for
Credits
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
as The Chief
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
as Mr. Dinckler
Top Hat (1935)
as Horace Hardwick
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
as Hudgins
Lost Horizon (1937)
as Alexander P. " Lovey " Lovett
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
as Mr. Witherspoon
Cold Turkey (1971)
as Hiram C. Grayson
Design for Living (1933)
as Max Plunkett
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Noble Sage
Holiday (1938)
as Nick Potter
The Story of Mankind (1957)
as Sir Walter Raleigh
Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Mad Hatter
Forever and a Day (1943)
as Anthony Trimble-Pomfret
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
as François Filiba
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
as Messenger 7013
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
as Egbert Fitzgerald
In Caliente (1935)
as Harold Brandon
Shall We Dance (1937)
as Jeffrey Baird
Summer Storm (1944)
as Count "Piggy" Volsky
Down to Earth (1947)
as Messenger 7013
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Farnsworth
La Bohème (1926)
as Benoit - Janitor
Lady on a Train (1945)
as Mr. Haskell
Uncertain Lady (1934)
as Elliot Crane
The Gang's All Here (1943)
as Peyton Potter
Angel (1937)
as Graham
Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1938)
as Marquis De Loiselle
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
as Gov. Don Paquito 'Paquitito'
The Merry Widow (1934)
as Ambassador Popoff
Holiday (1930)
as Nick Potter
2000 Years Later (1969)
as Evermore
The Terror (1928)
as Ferdinand Fane
Danger – Love at Work (1937)
as Howard Rogers
College Swing (1938)
as Hubert Dash
Springtime in the Rockies (1942)
as McTavish
The Great Garrick (1937)
as Tubby
The Perils of Pauline (1967)
as Caspar Coleman
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
as Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
The Front Page (1931)
as Bensinger
Reaching for the Moon (1930)
as Roger, the Valet
Sunny (1941)
as Henry Bates
Wild Money (1937)
as P.E. Dodd
Flapper Wives (1924)
as Vincent Platt
Roar of the Dragon (1932)
as Busby
Taxi! Taxi! (1927)
as Peter Whitby
Her Master's Voice (1936)
as Ned Farrar
Sing and Like It (1934)
as Adam Frink - Producer
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Hearts Divided (1936)
as John
Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
as J.B. Cruikshank
That's Right – You're Wrong (1939)
as Tom Village
Oh, Doctor (1937)
as Edward J. Billop
Things You Never See on the Screen (1935)
as Self
Little Big Shot (1935)
as Mortimer Thompson
Nobody's Fool (1936)
as Will Wright
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Harry Fisher
The Town Went Wild (1944)
as Everett Conway
Too Much Business (1922)
as John Henry Jackson
Helen's Babies (1924)
as Uncle Harry
The Gang's All Here (1939)
as Treadwell
The Age for Love (1931)
as Horace Keats
The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
as Eric
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1935)
as Leander 'Bunny' Nolan
Her Primitive Man (1944)
as Orrin
Hitting a New High (1937)
as Lucius B. Blynn
Bachelor Daddy (1941)
as Joseph Smith
The Sap (1929)
as The Sap, Bill Small
Brazil (1944)
as Everett St. John Everett
Easy to Love (1934)
as Eric
San Diego I Love You (1944)
as Philip McCooley
Smart Woman (1931)
as Billy Ross
The King and the Chorus Girl (1937)
as Count Humbert Evel Bruger
Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
as Dudley Dixon
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
as Hiram Dilworthy
$10 Raise (1935)
as Hubert T. Wilkins
The Perfect Specimen (1937)
as Mr. Grattan
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower (1956)
as Noah
Lonely Wives (1931)
as Richard 'Dickie' Smith / Felix, the Great Zero
The Night Is Young (1935)
as Baron Szereny
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
as Marcel Caron
His Night Out (1935)
as Homer B. Bitts
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
as Ernest Figg
The Singing Kid (1936)
as Davenport Rogers
Wide Open (1930)
as Simon Haldane
But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
as Sir George Kelvin
The Man Who Fights Alone (1924)
as Bob Alten
Going Highbrow (1935)
as Augie Winterspoon
The Body Disappears (1941)
as Professor Shotesbury
A Bedtime Story (1933)
as Victor Dubois
The Way to Love (1933)
as Professor Gaston Bibi
The Magnificent Dope (1942)
as Horace Hunter
You're the One (1941)
as Death Valley Joe Frink
Six Cylinder Love (1931)
as Monty Winston
Three Men on a Horse (1957)
as Mr. Carver
Smarty (1934)
as Vernon
Weekend for Three (1941)
as Fred Stonebraker
Try and Get It (1924)
as Glenn Collins
Ruggles of Red Gap (1923)
as Ruggles
Little Tough Guys in Society (1938)
as Oliver
All the King's Horses (1935)
as Count Josef 'Peppi' von Schlapstaat
Steppin' in Society (1945)
as Judge Avery Webster
Cinderella Jones (1946)
as Keating
Sonny Boy (1929)
as Crandall Thorpe
It's a Boy (1934)
as Dudley Leake
Kiss Me Again (1931)
as Rene
Poker Faces (1926)
as Jimmy Whitmore
I Married an Angel (1942)
as Peter
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Paul Vernet
The Private Secretary (1935)
as Rev. Robert Spalding
A Front Page Story (1922)
as Rodney Marvin
Soldiers of the King (1933)
as Sebastian Marvello
The Aviator (1929)
as Robert Street
Find the King (1927)
as Edward Fairchild
Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946)
as Dr. Milo Edwards
The Whole Town's Talking (1926)
as Chester Binney
To the Ladies (1924)
as Leonard Beebe
The Poor Rich (1934)
as Albert Stuyvesant Spottiswood
Scrambled Weddings (1928)
as Eddie Howe
Take the Heir (1930)
as Smithers
The Man in the Mirror (1936)
as Jeremy Dilke
Call Again (1928)
as Eddie
The Ladder Jinx (1922)
as Arthur Barnes
The Hottentot (1929)
as Sam Harrington
Behind the Counter (1928)
as Eddie Baxter
Let's Make a Million (1936)
as Harrison Gentry
Beggar on Horseback (1925)
as Neil McRae
No Publicity (1927)
as Eddie Howard
One Got Fat (1963)
as Narrator (voice)
Ask Dad (1929)
as Dad
The Emperor's Oblong Pancake (1964)
as Narrator
The Nutcracker (1926)
as Horatio Slipaway
Horse Shy (1928)
as Eddie Hamilton
The Great Junction Hotel (1931)
as The Groom
Once a Gentleman (1930)
as Oliver
The Wonderful World of Trains (1960)
as Professor Hotbox
Dad's Choice (1928)
as Eddie
The Right Bed (—)
as Bobby Kent
Vacation Waves (1928)
as Eddie Davis